gulliver

Thanks. I shall look for some; I hadn’t even thought of plugins – I wa shoping it was part of core functionality.

Thanks. I must be one of the odd types who finds it easier to read with the indents removed – I think this comes from my not really understanding much of it, and hence getting confused by code in which closing curly brackets appear in the middle of a line with several blank lines in between.

Thanks.

Since originally posting I went back to it and after a bit of searching and experimenting came up with something which seems to work:

<title><?php

/* Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed. */

// Add the site name and separator.
bloginfo('name');  echo ' | ';

// Add the site description for the front page.
$site_description = get_bloginfo('description', 'display');
if ( $site_description && ( is_front_page() ) ) echo "$site_description";

// Custom title for 404.
if (is_404()) echo 'file not available';

// Custom title for search results.
if (is_search()) {echo 'search result for: '; the_search_query('');}

// Show parent page title.
if($post->post_parent)  {$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent); echo $parent_title. ' : ';}

if (is_page()) wp_title('');

// Show page title on posts page.
if (is_home()) wp_title('');

// Show section title on posts.
if (is_single()) wp_title('Clips: ');

// Add a page number if necessary:
if ($paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 ) echo ' - ' . sprintf( __('page %s'), max($paged, $page) );

 ?>
</title>

(In this example, the site has a static front page and the posts page is ‘clips’.)

I don’t pretend to understand much of this stuff, and there’s a few things which seem odd but without which I couldn’t get things to dispay as required.

If there’s anything that’s a problem, please tell me.

Thanks.

Clearly, this very quickly becomes a complex issue, beyond the ability of non-tech types (among which I include myself) to understand and fix.

Thanks.

What I’d meant was ‘Is there a way to mass-edit them and set them all to the same author?’

Because the import brought them across with the same @blogger/blogspot system email address, WP has them all as comments not from one author but for a different author for each comment.

What I wanted to avoid was having to open each individually and assign them to the same author so they could be appopriately styled.

Jibu Pro.

There’s nothing with the same title, and nothing in the trash.

And if I create another numerically-titled page – with a ridiculous amount of digits which remove any possibility of thre being an earlier page similarly-named – it still adds the -2.

Not in my install…

I just renamed ‘front-page.php’ to ‘redirect.php’ (the template called in page attributes) – and it doesn’t load correctly. Re-renaming to ‘front-page.php’ makes it redirect.